Job 19:5

5 "If indeed you ¹vaunt yourselves against me And prove my disgrace to me,

Job 19:5 Meaning and Commentary

Job 19:5

If indeed ye will magnify [yourselves] against me
Look and talk big, set up themselves for great folk, and resolve to run him down; open their mouths wide against him and speak great swelling words in a blustering manner; or magnify what they called an error in him, and set it out in the worst light they could:

and plead against me my reproach;
his affliction which he was reproached with, and was pleaded against him as an argument of his being a wicked man; if therefore they were determined to go on after this manner, and insist on this kind of proof, then he would have them take what follows.

Job 19:5 In-Context

3 "These ten times you have insulted me; You are not ashamed to wrong me.

4 "Even if I have truly erred, My error lodges with me.

5 "If indeed you vaunt yourselves against me And prove my disgrace to me,

6 Know then that God has wronged me And has closed His net around me.

7 "Behold, I cry, 'Violence!' but I get no answer; I shout for help, but there is no justice.

Cross References

• 1. Psalms 35:26; Psalms 38:16; Psalms 55:12, 13